Established Milanese restaurant chain Panino Giusto are venturing into the UK market for the first time with a new venue at the Royal Exchange, which opened just last week – last night I popped along to see what all the fuss was about… With fifteen outlets in Milan itself, and another seven elsewhere in Italy, […]

Jumeirah, the Dubai-based luxury hotel chain that counts the Burj Al Arab amongst its properties, also own several hotels in London including the five star Jumeirah Lowndes hotel in Knightsbridge – late last week I was lucky enough to be invited along to a BBQ Masterclass at their open-air restaurant, the Terrace. You’ll find the […]

Adding to the regular round of beer festivals and chocolate extravaganzas in London, coffee is taking centre stage later this month when the London Coffee Festival comes to town from 25 to 28 April, forming the centrepiece of UK Coffee Week. Taking place at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, there’ll be lots of […]

I should confess straight out I am a big fan of Hard Rock Cafe, so I was excited to be invited down to their London restaurant last week to sample one of their new range of ‘Legendary’ burgers. Despite the fact that they’ve expanded well beyond their their humble beginnings on Park Lane, the original […]

For centuries London was a prodigious producer of gin – Nicholson’s operated their huge facility at Three Mills, Bromley by Bow until bombing caused their production to cease in 1941, and Gordons and Tanqueray continued to be made in Islington until the early 1980s. Of the big distillers, only Beefeater remains – their gin is […]